garnish
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Choose your own culinary adventure: The most advanced ordering system in the food industry is the multiple-choice menu that lets you assemble a masterpiece from every filling, topping, and garnish in existence.
From Slate ● Jul. 30, 2026
South Korean prosecutors sought a one-year jail term for the owner of a Michelin-starred restaurant accused of using ants as a dessert garnish, local media reported.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
Researchers tracked lawsuits in eight states where collectors use the courts to garnish wages and recover medical, credit card, utility and other debt.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
Fold in dill, chives and scallions — not as garnish, but as punctuation.
From Salon ● Apr. 14, 2026
So he sent our Grandfather a letter winch bid him to stuff him and garnish him, far within forty days he would fetch him out of the strongest castle that he had!”
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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Few automobile exteriors are ever finished like this, with its broad, sterling-like chrome garnishes at the lower grille intakes, the rocker panels, exhaust outlets and bumpers, all smoothed perfectly into the blown-glass curvatures.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 2, 2026
In the trailer released earlier this month, Meghan garnishes a cake with raspberries and harvests honey in California, where she lives with her husband Prince Harry and two children.
From BBC ● Jan. 12, 2025
The easiest way to cut down on food waste is to use everything – for stocks, for sauces, for garnishes, to pickle, you name it!
From Salon ● Sep. 21, 2024
That means its true identity is heightened with a masquerade of mixers, garnishes and the like.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2023
Sometimes he’d stop at the store and buy various ingredients for his turtle soup, various spices and garnishes.
From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride
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Social Security cannot be garnished for credit-card debt, so break the cycle of paying for two households.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 27, 2026
And at times “Kenrex” verges on caricature in its depiction of rural life as a lawless Wild Midwest, garnished by such down-home delicacies as “a deep fried barbecue chili cheese dog with bacon crumbles.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026
The shindig included a three-tiered pink cake, pink cocktails garnished with meringue that looked like clouds and balloons galore.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 20, 2026
Three decades later, despite making payments and even having her wages garnished previously when she fell behind, she still owes $60,000.
From Salon ● Mar. 17, 2026
Dish after dish is brought to the table, some easily identifiable as quail or rabbit or lamb, served on banana leaves or baked in apples or garnished with brandy-soaked cherries.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
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That might include garnishing wages and tax refunds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2026
The Education Department announced that it would start garnishing the wages of borrowers in default on their loans early next year.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 30, 2025
Department of Education will begin garnishing wages from approximately 1,000 defaulted student loan borrowers early next year.
From Barron's ● Dec. 23, 2025
The U.N. has also sought to block North Koreans from working overseas in the hopes of preventing North Korea from garnishing the wages of such laborers.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 2, 2023
So all that he died possessed of in wealth and lands and manors, together with the rich garnishing thereof, became the heritage of the knight.
From Aucassin & Nicolette And Other Mediaeval Romances and Legends by Mason, Eugene
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